Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies and Network Analysis-Based Integration with Gene Expression Data Identify New Suggestive Loci and Unravel a Wnt-Centric Network Associated with Dupuytren’s Disease

Kerstin Becker, Sabine Siegert, Mohammad Reza Toliat, Juanjiangmeng Du, Ramona Casper, Guido H Dolmans, Paul M Werker, Sigrid Tinschert, Andre Franke, Christian Gieger, Konstantin Strauch, Michael Nothnagel, Peter Nürnberg, Hans Christian Hennies and German Dupuytren Study Group

PLOS ONE, 2016, vol. 11, issue 7, 1-18

Abstract: Dupuytren´s disease, a fibromatosis of the connective tissue in the palm, is a common complex disease with a strong genetic component. Up to date nine genetic loci have been found to be associated with the disease. Six of these loci contain genes that code for Wnt signalling proteins. In spite of this striking first insight into the genetic factors in Dupuytren´s disease, much of the inherited risk in Dupuytren´s disease still needs to be discovered. The already identified loci jointly explain ~1% of the heritability in this disease. To further elucidate the genetic basis of Dupuytren´s disease, we performed a genome-wide meta-analysis combining three genome-wide association study (GWAS) data sets, comprising 1,580 cases and 4,480 controls. We corroborated all nine previously identified loci, six of these with genome-wide significance (p-value

Date: 2016
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